Travel

Travel-related posts before they get moved to travel.lonelocust.com

Why? Why? Why?

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Michelle has the week off school and so we decided to try that time honored tradition: The family vacation. For the first time since we began our family, our schedule was dictated by school and not our own planning.

Long before blogs – a postscript

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Well, I posted the journal entries for my 10 day 1998 trip to Taiwan, and, not too surprisingly, they now reside at the very beginning of my blog database, and can only be seen by looking back at the archive for May 1998.As far as I can tell, they don’t even show up in the RSS feeds.In a way, it was like a re-release of a movie. I got to correct a few spelling and gramatical errors.

Reader’s Digest fails to digest the Whole Picture…

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My wife brought the Reader’s Digest article to my attention the other day. Apparently Taipei came out at or near the bottom in terms of the Digest’s rudeness scale for cities. The article she was reading was in Chinese, so there wasn’t much point in my blogging it – and naturally, I haven’t read it.

Five Takes

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I just happened to stumble across 5 Takes this evening on TV.It’s a program I’ve never watched before, but was fascinated by the concept: 5 people are given a bit of money, a laptop and a camera (crew, perhaps) and sent on trips.

Costco – the Plan

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Last time I went to Taiwan, I was still unable to reach the 3rd Costco in Taipei (designated the Shih Chih Costco) due to a variety of technical problems. None of the Costcos are conveniently accessible via subway, not that I would imagine being able to haul back a Costco-sized load of groceries on the … Read more

Dr. Milker

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This was just too priceless not to take a picture of. Incidentally, despite the awful name, Dr. Milker is the most normal tasting milk I found in Taiwan. I’m not an expert on pasteurization, but I couldn’t help noticing that the description of the process on Taiwanese milk usually involved phrases like, “Ultra high temperature … Read more

Leftovers

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We’ve been awfully busy/sick lately and just haven’t had much time to post… besides, when you’re sick/busy, there’s nothing much really to tell. I offloaded my cellphone photos tonight and discovered I had a few leftovers from Taiwan. This was one of my favorites. As we were waiting in the airport terminal, in the food … Read more

Flickr Done!

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I finished upoading the last of my photos from Taiwan. Gridman’s Photos Technorati Tags: Blog, Taiwan, Travel